Peter Ibbetson Quotes & Sayings

In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems. — Philip Kitcher

When you have children, it's like having your heart beating outside your chest. You can drive yourself crazy wanting to protect them and make sure that nothing harms them. It's a feeling of vulnerability that you can't get around sometimes. — Kevin Griffin

The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows? — Jose Mourinho

Strength of character is never with those who blindly follow. You need to be able to make your own choices and walk your own path. — Celeste Lim

No man ever does that under the first fury of despair or remorse or bereavement he does it only when he has realised that even the despair or remorse or bereavement is not particularly important to the dark diceman — William Faulkner

I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it. — Juan Williams

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. — Willard Van Orman Quine

None are too wise to be mistaken, but few are so wisely just as to acknowledge and correct their mistakes, and especially the mistakes of prejudice. — Isaac Barrow

Eternity ended ten years ago. — Brandon Sanderson

Nothing
happens without a reason. — Marilyn Monroe

I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait. — Tammara Webber

Tell me about Dunyasha," he said.
"She was carrying quality blades." Inej took the shears from the table of the vanity and began cutting fresh strips of cloth from one of the towels. "I think she may be my shadow."
"Pretty solid shadow if she can throw knives."
"The Suli believe that when we do wrong, we give life to our shadows. Every sin makes the shadow stronger, until eventually the shadow is stronger than you."
"If that were true, my shadow would have put Ketterdam in permanent night."
"Maybe," Inej said, turning her dark gaze to his. "Or maybe you're someone else's shadow. — Leigh Bardugo

Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that,
where intention is sound, action is sound,
and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt — Al-Nawawi

As Hurston herself noted, "Roll your eyes in ecstasy and ape his every move, but until we have placed something upon his street corner that is our own, we are right back where we were when they filed our iron collar off. — Zora Neale Hurston

He shook two cigarettes from a crushed paper — John Jakes